Be First Quotes

When was the last time you did something for the first time?

A girl didn't get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time.

I do a lot of revising. Certain chapters six or seven times. Occasionally you can hit it right the first time. More often, you don't.

Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.

By definition a sequel can't be original. So you've got to figure out what worked the first time around.

The First Lady is going to be criticized no matter what she does.

For the first time, preventing nuclear proliferation and nuclear terrorism is now at the top of America's nuclear agenda.

A poor woman from Manchester, on being taken to the seaside, is said to have expressed her delight on seeing for the first time something of which there was enough for everybody.

God doesn't want your leftovers. God wants your love overtures, your first-overs, because He is your first love.

Superstar was made so early in my career I had nothing to do with it at all. The first time I saw it was the opening screening.

I was thin in high school and then I gained weight. I went to a nutritionist. I learned for the first time about what things are healthy to eat, basically.

The weird thing is, I used to skate in front of, like, 5,000 people and I was never nervous, but the first time I got on stage, there were four people there and I vomited.

When I read Dickens for the first time, I thought he was Jewish, because he wrote about oppression and bigotry, all the things that my father talked about.

I usually do one con a year as a GoH and try to make the World Fantasy Convention for business purposes. Last year I went to a worldcon for the first time in two decades. I may go again this year.

When you are in your teenage years you are consciously experiencing everything for the first time, so adolescent stories are all beginnings. There are never any endings.

I have a very young brother and sister, and if you can get a kid singing the words to a song after they heard it for the first time, it's a hit.

The 2004 Election marks the first time in modern political history that Republican voter turnout matched Democratic turnout in a presidential election year.

Our 1 million members across the country will be watching closely to see if the video game industry hides behind a First Amendment veil in order to exploit children for the sake of corporate profit.

The first kiss between two people is something really good in life.

And from the first time I picked up a basketball at age eight - I had a lot of difficulty when I first picked up a basketball, because I was a scrub - there were things that I liked about it.

He didn't say a lot so I tend to remember what he did say. And I don't remember that he had a lot of patience with havin to say things twice so I learned to listen the first time.

If I like a film, I usually appreciate the way it was made the first time.

First impressions are often signals from the deep that we should credit oftener than we do.

The shock, for an intelligent writer, of discovering for the first time that there are people younger than himself who think him stupid is severe.

When you meet someone for the first time instead of asking them what they do, you should ask them what they've always wanted to do. This conversation will be much more interesting.

That was the first time I knew I loved him.

Some birdies were about a family with hardships. Other days, birdie was a selfless teacher. And birdie from before is my first love.

You have to understand how the human eye behaves when it views a scene for the first time. Work with that knowledge, and your paintings will have more drama and will evoke strong reactions.

This morning, for the first time in a long time, the joy again of imagining a knife twisted in my heart.

Up until I started on YouTube, my first love was musical theater.

I'm not the first person to have discovered evidence that consciousness exists beyond the body. Brief, wonderful glimpses of this realm are as old as human history.

She must be assured that it is not a criminal offense to love at first sight.

If you've been married for 400 years, as I have, it's nice to experience first love again and you can vicariously through a book.

I don't believe in love at first sight because it means you're falling in love with someone's looks, not personality.

It was frightening because it was the first time I had gotten a sense of how serious the problem was. It became clear from his notes that he felt the president himself was involved.

Never forget that you only have one opportunity to make a first impression - with investors, with customers, with PR, and with marketing.

There were people who incorporated melody before me, but I would deem myself the first person to successfully rap and sing.

The basis of the First Amendment is the hypothesis that speech can rebut speech, propaganda will answer propaganda, free debate of ideas will result in the wisest governmental policies.

There’s nothing like the first kiss once you’ve been pronounced husband and wife. It’s such a wonderful moment!

The movies were custard compared to politics.

There were wonderful moments when I was singing for the first time in the Olympia Theatre and I was pregnant with my son, which was very, very strange for a singer.

The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.

The memories of long love gather like drifting snow, poignant as the mandarin ducks who float side by side in sleep.

For the first time in history, the human species as a whole has gone into politics. Everyone is in the act, and there is no telling what may come of it.

You will recognize, my boy, the first sign of old age: it is when you go out into the streets of London and realize for the first time how young the policemen look.

Going on stage and doing ballet, for the first time, was even more verification of, "This is what I'm meant to do. This is what I'm going to do. I'm going to make it somehow."

My first love is writing and producing. So I sometimes put my own stuff off to work on other people's projects.

I thought it was time to get a group together and the first person I thought of was Wayne Shorter. I called Wayne and in the meantime, Wayne called me to make an album with him, which was Super Nova.

They put me in a harness, like a horse, to learn the back somersault. It was weird up there when I put on that harness for the first time. The courage came with practice.

I'm very used to working with first time actors - you can just look back at 'E.T.' with Drew Barrymore, and Christian Bale from 'Empire of the Sun,' who'd never made a movie before.